Assignment #1: Read and write about a significant place
A. Guiding Questions:
What place is so special to you that when you go there you feel comforted, energized, relaxed?
What do you see, feel, hear, smell, and taste when you observe your place?
B. Make a list of familiar places you like to go, places you go to regularly, places you can stand in and look at everything around you.
C. From the list, pick the place you know best. Create a web with the name of the place in the center. Then step into that place and list everything you see, feel, hear, smell, and taste.
Assignment #1: Read and write about a significant place
A. Guiding Questions:
B. Make a list of familiar places you like to go, places you go to regularly, places you can stand in and look at everything around you.
C. From the list, pick the place you know best. Create a web with the name of the place in the center. Then step into that place and list everything you see, feel, hear, smell, and taste.
D. Read the following mentor texts:
Memoir--Place--Metamorphosis
E. Use the ideas you gleaned from the mentor texts and your web to draft an essay describing your favorite place.
F. Revise your piece to include a variety of craft techniques including complex and compound sentences and figurative language.
G. Type your final piece, complete your endnotes: